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Originally Posted by jimmio
A few days ago Lori Lightfoot, the black mayor of Chicago announced that she will only be granting interviews with "people of color". She flat-out and proudly said that whites are excluded from talking/interviewing her.
Her racist attitude is alarming as not only a person, but is magnified by the fact that she is the mayor of Chicago.
Imagine being the reporter whose "beat" is Chicago politics? There goes your way of life simply because you're caucasian.
Of course I have to ask that what if this was done by any other white mayor? What if Bill De Blasio, mayor of New York city or Gil Garcetti, mayor of L.A. proclaimed that they won't be interviewed if your a person of color? Oh my God! There would be mass coverage, people calling for their resignation or firing, protests in the streets! But no, it's a black person racially discriminating against a white, that seems to be ok and we just have to sit back and take it.
What bothers me more than this act is that no one seems to care? No major news coverage across the board? A couple of days a few outlets ran with it but with no great urgency to get to the bottom of it?
Maybe the "bottom of it" is that we as white people should just take it and get use to it?
We seem to be doing a stellar job at it so far.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media...or-interviews/
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I like it. It is almost humorous! Turn about IS fair play! She IS the duly elected Mayor. I HAVE to respect that. Black, browns, and women have been de-emphasized for FAR too long in US society. Catching up IS desperately needed. We NEED to be more INCLUSIONARY in order to have a stronger society and advance faster on moral and scientific grounds. Mayor Lightfoot may be making a statement that we need to be more "fair and balanced" - and she IS doing her best to "catch up". I applaud her for making a statement. A Mayor of a large city like Chicago SHOULD be controversial to shine a light on a problem. History books have tried too often to erase the importance of both Native Americans and minorities.
It is the patriotic duty of people like Lightfoot and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the 1619 Project Author to shine the light on Historic inequities!